CVE-2016-7416
N/A
Published: September 17, 2016 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPHP
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
Description
ext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_format.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not properly restrict the locale length provided to the Locale class in the ICU library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a MessageFormatter::formatMessage call with a long first argument.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/10Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296x_refsource_MISCx_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6d55ba265637d6adf0ba7e9c9ef11187d1ec2f5b?w=1Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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